Meaning of dustpanful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a dustpan.

Examples

“If he have⟳ cunning and greed enough, the workhouse boy sent out to sweep⟳ an office may learn⟳ how to sweep⟳ money by the dustpan[-]ful out of his neighbours’ tills, may learn⟳ to be a famous “operator” in the money market, and to die⟳ in the blessed assurance that he is bequeathing a plum to his heirs.”

“The last⟳ nail was driven, the last⟳ dustpanful of litter removed to its home in the new dust-hole;[…]”

“The walls and ceiling of the servants’ offices and kitchen, which at the beginning of the spring⟳ had been painted white, and were immaculate in their purity, became literally a yellow-brown coffee color, darkened all over with spots as black as soot, with the defilement of these torments, of which three and four dustpanfuls a day would be swept away dead without appreciably diminishing their number⟳.”

“If my woman had only been sharp enough to have⟳ punched out the bottoms of a couple of chairs and sprinkled a few dustpansful of dirt over the floor, her visitor’s pocketbook would have⟳ shown up quicker than scat!”

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